Texas Technology Education Standards
Standard I: The Master Technology Teacher effectively models and applies classroom teaching methodology and curriculum models that promote active student learning through the integration of technology and addresses the varied learning needs of all students.
Standard II: The Master Technology Teacher selects and administers appropriate technology-related assessments on an ongoing basis and uses the results to design and improve instruction.
Standard III: The Master Technology Teacher applies knowledge of digital learning competencies including Internet research, graphics, animation, website mastering and video technology.
Standard IV: The Master Technology Teacher serves as a resource regarding the integration of assistive technologies and accessible design concepts to meet the needs of all students.
Standard V: The Master Technology Teacher facilitates appropriate, research-based technology instruction by communicating and collaborating with educational stakeholders; mentoring, coaching and consulting with colleagues; providing professional development opportunities for faculty; and making decisions based on converging evidence from research.
Standard I: The Master Technology Teacher effectively models and applies classroom teaching methodology and curriculum models that promote active student learning through the integration of technology and addresses the varied learning needs of all students.
Standard II: The Master Technology Teacher selects and administers appropriate technology-related assessments on an ongoing basis and uses the results to design and improve instruction.
Standard III: The Master Technology Teacher applies knowledge of digital learning competencies including Internet research, graphics, animation, website mastering and video technology.
Standard IV: The Master Technology Teacher serves as a resource regarding the integration of assistive technologies and accessible design concepts to meet the needs of all students.
Standard V: The Master Technology Teacher facilitates appropriate, research-based technology instruction by communicating and collaborating with educational stakeholders; mentoring, coaching and consulting with colleagues; providing professional development opportunities for faculty; and making decisions based on converging evidence from research.
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Standard II Standard III Standard IV Standard V |
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ReflectionThis assignment is a great introductory lesson on numerators and denominators. This stop motion video gives my students a visual o numerators and denominators while at the same time giving them information that allows for generation of questions.
Out of all of the projects this semester, I learned the most from the TEASe. I learned how to convert you tube videos to MP4, work iMovie, work iPhoto, and navigate iTunes. This is another great way for children being able to visually see information and grab their attention. Completing the screencast, podcast, and sketchcast allowed me to learn new technological methods that will help me instruct my students. These learning methods will allow me to create lessons where my students can constantly review and practice key information. At the beginning of this year, I will be able to create a podcast introducing myself to each period and telling the students and parents about the upcoming year. This beginning of year podcast will help me to get the students excited about the upcoming year. This assignment gave me a practical way of teaching Bloom's Taxonomy. I can challenge my students with higher level questions, but at the same time keeping the lesson interactive. This interactive component will keep the students attention and keep them engaged. This assignment gave me another way to implement project based learning in my classroom. This is a great inclusive tool to structure a collaborative lesson. I chose to create my WebQuest over the final project for my 8th grade class. Given the structure of a WebQuest, it was a perfect tool to create this assignment. The students are given a step by step process for researching different aspects of a suspension bridge, unifying all aspects of their research, and then collaboratively building a working model. The WebQuest will keep the students engaged, thereby allowing me to be more assessable for individualized questions. This assignment gave me another way to integrate technology into my classroom while at the same time creating a collaborative lesson. This assignment allows my students to show their understanding of numerators and denominators is a fun an active manner. Students continue to build upon those important skills of collaboration while learning how to use technology in a non gaming manner. This accumulation of lessons is a wonderful tool use utilize in the classroom. It helps teachers think through the process of how to instruct students using varying models. This project allowed me to create ten detailed lessons that can be transferred right into the classroom. Completing my collage, I learned great features of Word to help tell about myself. I have expanded that thinking to have my students create one for each chapter so it will help them remember their vocabulary words. The kids love it! The excel graph is another tool that I will be adding to my lesson plans. My final activity has the students creating an excel graph. I think this will be another great way for them to visually see information. This assignment gave me another avenue for assessing my students. My students are so computer literate they love when technology is brought into the classroom. I believe giving my students reviews and assessments online will bring in the technology that my students crave and hopefully cut away at the redundancy of paper and pencil assessments. I learned a great teaching tool for directing students to specific content sites to use for independent learning. I have already used the subject sampler, and it alleviated the "boringness" the students had last year. The children learned about fractions and have been able to retain that information. Also, it gave me an extra day in the classroom. Right now, I am looking at modifying it for my two lower classes. I learned how to create a website; therefore, I used that information to create my own class website. This website has provided me a wonderful vehicle for disseminating information. It also allows the parents and students to keep abreast of what is going on in class. I learned another great teaching tool for directing student's learning. This online lesson will give students more accountability for their own learning and also give them the ability to collaborate with each other and learn from each other. For my population, I am not sure I could use this lesson for a formative assessment piece, but it would give the students great exposure to a varying instructional piece. All of these artifacts pushed my creativity and taught me that any kind of design element needs to have contrast, repetition, alignment (not necessarily center), and proximity. There needs to be thought about the purpose of the media, the audience of the media, and how to convey your message. Also, the adobe programs used to create the majority of these artifacts showed me how easy creating these artifacts can be. I cannot wait to use everything I have created. This assignment reinforced why I teacher. After being in the classroom for ten years, it was helpful to remember that teaching is about relationships and connection you make with the students. The assistive technology activity reinforced what I do in the classroom on a daily basis. I am always looking for new and creative ways to help me students learn the needed curriculum. I learned about a teachers responsibilities with regards to copyright and how teachers need to model appropriate copyright laws for their students. I learned about fair use and its specific limitations regarding audio, video and images. I also learned that copyright is very extensive and to make sure you are in compliant before you post anything. By posting discussion on blackboard, I was able to learn from my peers. The discussion posts that assisted me the most were the ones over the interactive component. I saw many online assessment tools that would be wonderful to implement in my classroom. I also like seeing how others used the online assessments. Again, this gave me ideas about how to implement these tools in my classroom. This assignment was the first assignment due in the research class. It taught me how to start thinking like a researcher. I starting looking at research articles in a more critical manner. This questioning will continue to help as I read more research articles. I loved this assignment, because I learned another avenue for using blogs. I have always known that blogs are a communication vehicle, but I have never been able to implement this web tool in a more educational manner. In my class, while my students are completing projects, they can blog about their learning experiences and accomplishments for the day. This will be a great way for me to see what they are learning and answer any questions that might arise during projects. This assignment not only allowed me to create a wiki, but also gave me the tool to expand upon my research for incorporating iPads at my school. Wiki's are a great tool to disseminate information. They allow the creator to focus on the content and not worry about the appearance of the page. This was a wonderful assignment to expose me to the purpose of wikis. Up until this point, I never ventured into creating a wiki nor did I ever think of having my students create one. After this assignment, I had my 8th grade class research the laws of exponents and create a wiki explaining each law. This allowed my class to learn about the laws of exponents in a project format while allowing them to create something they have only used. Student's wiki "Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World" allowed me to view this generation in a different perspective. I have always known that they learn differently, but this book gave me the insight on how they use their education to create and the different perspective they bring into the classroom. As I plan lessons, I always keep this perspective in the forefront of my mind. This coaching process allowed me to work with colleagues in new ways. I was able to impart knowledge that I have acquired through HBU's program. I learned not to become frustrated when I took a coachee out of his/her comfort zone. I learned how to listen and not instruct. I also learned how to better communicate with colleagues in order to impart information that allows him/her to incorporate classroom technology. This was a wonderful experience. This experience allowed me to present to a room of my peers. I was able to impart information about a new iPad app. This app is something that the teachers could immediately use in his/her classroom. Given I am an educator, I felt immediate classroom use was a crucial element in my decision making process. I enjoyed the experience, and I will continue to present in the future. |